Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk cheerfully about buoys disastrously missed in fog, and climbers about snow-cave bivouacs that lasted for days. Still, the risk takers know that sailors drown and mountaineers fall. There is a casualty list, and the chances of ending up on it increase with the risks. Balloonist Maxie Anderson flew across the Atlantic five years ago in his great silver Double Eagle II; early this summer he and Partner Don Ida crashed and died in Bavaria during a balloon race. In 1978 a New Zealander named Naomi James, 34, became the first woman to circumnavigate the world alone via Cape...
...rings and a vintage Cartier watch. To his new son-in-law he gave his "most prized possession," a framed photograph of Fisher holding Carrie and her brother Todd when they were babies. After the formalities, though, the customary honeymoon was replaced by a "working honeymoon" as the couple flew off to Houston, where Simon and Garfunkel were to appear as part of a nationwide reunion tour...
Helicopter tactics were still in the experimental stage when Warrant Officer Mason arrived at An Khe in 1965. Nobody knew much of anything except that Viet Nam was, as Mason writes, "a good place to buy stereo equipment." For months the Army suffered high chopper losses because pilots flew at low levels over Viet Cong-held villages and paddy-fields without varying their approaches and takeoffs. Men died because promised chest-armor plates for their cockpits failed to arrive. To exist, Mason learned to adapt to "the details of the job at hand, no matter how bizarre...
Although they were officially prohibited from flying more than four hours a day, pilots often were at the controls for eight. Mason says that he once flew 20 out of 24 hours. Fatigue fogged the senses, and the view of combat through the Plexiglas became hallucinatory. He thought about bullets coming "through my bones and guts and through the ship and never stopping. A voice echoed in the silence...
...were Mason's countrymen. As the fighting intensified, his Huey was frequently an ambulance, and too often a hearse stacked with corpses. "The smell of death seeped out of the zippered pouches and made the living retch," he writes. "No matter how fast I flew, the smell would not blow away." Mason suffered from insomnia, blackouts and nightmares about dying children. He let mosquitoes bite him because malaria was a fail-safe ticket home. When he witnessed two Marines being blown up by a claymore mine they were setting, he reflected, "What's next in this carnival...